The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown.
Barbara Grabowska
Adam Ferency
Bogusław Linda
Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Tomasz Międzik
Aleksiej Awdiejew
Wiktor Grotowicz
Tadeusz Huk
Michał Juszczakiewicz
Krzysztof Kiersznowski
Marian Łącz
Paweł Nowisz
Ryszard Sobolewski
Michał Tarkowski
Krzysztof Zaleski
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Zbigniew Bielski
Maciej Borniński
Zbigniew Kosowski
Krzysztof Stachowski
Grażyna Dyląg
Ireneusz Karamon
Ryszard Kubiak
Zuzanna Łozińska
Zygmunt Malawski
Wojciech Machnicki
Aleksander Mikołajczak
Marek Pączek
Izydor Piliszewski
Antoni Pszoniak
Maria Robaszkiewicz
Zbigniew Nawrocki
Alicja Sobieraj
Eugeniusz Sobkiewicz
Andrzej Schoeneich
Jerzy Walden
Grzegorz Wons
Ewa Worytkiewicz
Mariusz Gorczyński
Józef Grzeszczak
Stanisław Jaroszyński
Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski
Jerzy Rogowski
Stefan Paska
Marek Probosz